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+# wanderbooks
+
+Canonical double-entry bookkeeping, rebuilt from scratch — the storytold way:
+an engine verified against oracles, with automated parity tracking, on its
+way to becoming a self-hosted bookkeeping app that never charges rent.
+
+Private while it cooks.
+
+## Status
+
+Phase 1: the semantics engine. `ledger-core` implements the accounting laws
+in Rust — exact decimal money, five account types, balanced journal entries,
+immutable posted log with reversing entries, trial balance, P&L, and balance
+sheet — with 14 invariant tests and golden-file report snapshots.
+
+See [`plan/STATUS.md`](plan/STATUS.md) for where things stand and
+[`plan/roadmap.md`](plan/roadmap.md) for where they're going.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```bash
+cargo test
+```
+
+That's the whole test suite: validation rejections, immutability, the
+accounting equation on a fixture company, a 300-entry randomized invariant
+test, and the golden oracle test.
+
+## Layout
+
+```
+crates/ledger-core/   # the engine: money, accounts, journal, ledger, reports
+docs/                 # requirements, architecture, oracle design, parity, glossary
+plan/                 # STATUS.md, roadmap.md
+AGENTS.md             # operating manual for agents working here
+```
+
+## The idea, briefly
+
+storytold/ArtCraft showed that agents can clone full applications with the
+right machinery: screenshot-in-the-loop verification, render oracles, and
+automated parity floors. `wanderbooks` adapts that pipeline to bookkeeping,
+where the oracle is semantic instead of visual — GnuCash (open source, open
+formats) is both the spec and the reference implementation we diff against,
+and two engines fed the same books must produce byte-identical reports.
+Details in [`docs/oracle.md`](docs/oracle.md).
+
+## License
+
+MIT OR Apache-2.0. See `LICENSE-MIT` and `LICENSE-APACHE`.